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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1826073" data-attributes="member: 396914">No need to go hyperbolic, Patrick. TM is normal, it's just that given it uses hard links for the chains to support the history it depends on knowing and having access to the drive structure. And TM can be used with a NAS, as long as the NAS and TM can communicate.As far as CCC, I'm not sure if it can use a NAS that doesn't support TM. CCC also depends on the drive being formatted MacOS Extended Journaled. Bombich does describe a process to create a disk image on the NAS and backing up to that, but then also says that if the NAS doesn't support TM then CCC can't use it either. Here is the article from Bombich: <a href="https://bombich.com/kb/ccc5/i-want-back-up-my-whole-mac-time-capsule-nas-or-other-network-volume" target="_blank">I want to back up my whole Mac to a Time Capsule, NAS, or other network volume | Carbon Copy Cloner | Bombich Software</a>.So the real issue is that the NAS needs to support the right protocol to work with CCC or TM.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1826073, member: 396914"] No need to go hyperbolic, Patrick. TM is normal, it's just that given it uses hard links for the chains to support the history it depends on knowing and having access to the drive structure. And TM can be used with a NAS, as long as the NAS and TM can communicate. As far as CCC, I'm not sure if it can use a NAS that doesn't support TM. CCC also depends on the drive being formatted MacOS Extended Journaled. Bombich does describe a process to create a disk image on the NAS and backing up to that, but then also says that if the NAS doesn't support TM then CCC can't use it either. Here is the article from Bombich: [url=https://bombich.com/kb/ccc5/i-want-back-up-my-whole-mac-time-capsule-nas-or-other-network-volume]I want to back up my whole Mac to a Time Capsule, NAS, or other network volume | Carbon Copy Cloner | Bombich Software[/url]. So the real issue is that the NAS needs to support the right protocol to work with CCC or TM. [/QUOTE]

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